The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed toge…

Virginia Woolf
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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ✨ 1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.
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